Inspections, Compliance, Enforcements and Recalls

Inspections and Compliance Programs

• Current Good Manufacturing Practice in Manufacturing, Packing, or Holding Human Food: 21 CFR Part 110
• Fake Food Fight (economic adulteration of food)
• FDA Inspection References (Manuals and other documents that provide procedures and guidance to FDA personnel for conducting their inspectional and investigational activities)
• FDA Compliance References (Compliance Policy Guides and Regulatory Procedure Manual)
• FDA Laboratory Procedures Manual
• Food and Cosmetics Compliance Programs
• Imports and Exports
• Information about Food Allergens
• Microbiological Methods
• Food Safety and Terrorism
• International Agreements
• Inspect Foreign Establishments
  • FDA Guide to International Inspections and Travel
• Food Labeling Compliance
  • Food Labeling & Nutrition
  • Dietary Supplements Labeling
• Other Informational Material

Enforcement and Recalls

• FDA Product Recalls, Alerts, and Warnings
• FDA Recall Polices Explained For Industry
• Recalls: FDA, Industry Cooperate to Protect Consumers
• Summary of Court Decision in United States of America vs. Blue Ribbon Smoked Fish, Inc., et alia

Trace Foodborne Illness Outbreaks

• Investigation of Foodborne Outbreaks (Investigations Operations Manual, Chapter 9)
• FDA's Role in Traceback Investigations for Produce
• Memorandum to improve the approach to interstate outbreaks of foodborne illness, May 1998 (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Health & Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency)
• Center for Disease Control Outbreak Investigation
• Foodborne Illness
  • Bad Bug Book
  • Microbiological Methods
  • BAM

HACCP

• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System in Foods

LACF

• Acidified and Low Acid Canned Foods

Federal/State Programs

• FDA Federal/State Food Programs
  • Milk Safety
    • Interstate Milk Shippers List: Sanitation compliance and enforcement ratings of interstate milk shippers
  • Retail Food Safety including Food Code
  • Seafood Safety
• Federal/State References

Training

• Sanitation and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) in Spanish (Also available in Spanish)
  (Feb. 13, Apr. 24, May 17, 2001 in California)
• State Training Courses

International Programs

• Affirmative Agenda for International Activities December 1999
• International Activities (including Codex)
• Other Language Documents
• Importing Food and Cosmetics Into the United States
• Exporting Food and Cosmetics From the United States

Other Government Sources of Information

• www.FoodSafety.gov - Gateway to Government Food Safety Information